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How to set up an RSS or MailChimp feed with IssueM

If you want to allow your readers to easily keep up-to-date with your latest articles then you are going to want to make use of RSS feeds, whether it’s simply providing a feed for adding to a reader or creating an RSS-driven campaign in MailChimp.

Finding the feeds for articles can be a little tricky though, so here’s what you need to know.

RSS feed of most recent articles

http://yourdomain/feed?post_type=article

This will list the most recently published articles by publish date1, regardless of issue.

RSS feed of most recent articles in a particular article category

http://yourdomain/article-categories/[category-slug]/feed

This will the most recently published articles for a particular category by publish date. The easiest way to get the URL is to go to Articles > Article Categories, hover over the category name and click View on the action menu. This will take you to the article category listing on the public site and all you need to do is add /feed to the URL in your browser’s location bar.

If you are using WordPress categories for your articles, then you can use the same technique but go to Posts > Categories instead. Remember, this will include posts as well as articles, so if you only want to include articles add /?post_type=article to the end of the URL.

Adding articles to your main RSS feed

Your site’s primary RSS feed (http://yourdomain/feed) will only include posts. If you want to include articles in the feed as well then you need to let WordPress know.

You can do this by adding the following code to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file2: